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#Pink's CNY 2014's Looks

Hellowww everybody!!!!

It's been a crazy busy four days for me, i'm dead tired and have no time to blog properly yet. I have so much to tell you though! It's been pretty much four days full of non-stop celebrations (which is good according to the fortune teller, see my previous post to see what i mean) haha. But like i said, too tired to think much but i do miss blogging (i'm addicted i guess) so i'm just gonna do the easy stuffs first : showing off my Chinese New Year looks!

CNY's Eve, CNY morning and CNY night outfits. All about red, of course! (it symbolizes fortune and luck!)

I just love dressing up, i'm totally the type of person that always goes overboard on holidays and festivities so you won't ever see me not dressing up to the occasion! And Chinese New Year is like the single most important holiday if you're Chinese, so all the new make ups must come out as well for me :p.

All the new stuffs (the most important one : new undies!) start to come out on CNY eve in my family, so here are my new make ups for the night :

Collection Hotlights Lip Gloss (but i only managed to use it on the CNY night!) in 5 (Glow), The Face Shop's Lovely Me Ex Color My Eye Brow in No 2 (Light Brown), Skin Food Honey Lip Treatment, Collection Volume Sensation Lipstick in 9 (Grape Glitz) and Lancome Eye Shadow Quad (i got it from my mum, it's tiny-containing 1.52gr of eye shadows in total so i guess it's a travel size?)

I mentioned just a few days ago about how obsessed (in a bad way) i was with my super dark, jet black eye brows after i had my hair retouched. How jarringly clashing the colors was, how weird i suddenly felt-that i wasted no time to hunt for the cheapest (errr... Old habits die hard you know...) eye brow mascara around. I purchased one immediately from Chic Princessa (along with a few other stuffs, will show you soon!) and been wearing it every day since the 30th!

It was the cheapest one available in Chic Princessa (IDR 65.000) and i wasn't even sure about the color matching my hair (because i couldn't find any review for the mascara type, only the pencil types! Wonder if this is a new product or something?) and was super nervous about not being able to apply it properly (i've never done anything to my eyebrow other than plucking it in the past! I know squat about applying products to my brows! I don't even know how to use eye brow pencils!), but it was a lot easier than i expected!

CNY's Eve's FOTD

My CNY nails, using Etude House Dear My Party Nails PBK801

I love love love this chiffon dress, so floaty and pretty! Very flattering shape too (not suitable for very skinny girls though, my niece Au tried it on once and she looked like a lost kite or something :p)

My fave sleeve length : Check! Princessy material : Check! Decent length so i won't need to worry about my pesky relatives' comments : Check!

Paired it with a golden obi since the zipper's golden (also perfect because CNY's identical with red and gold! It's all about the cha-chingggg for us Chinese i guess :p)

Completed the outfit with this large structured clutch that i got from Sogo on sale (of course) a while back. I haven't even featured it in my haul post, that's how behind i am with my haul posts!

Red Chiffon Dress : Body and Soul, Golden Obi : Magnolia, Structured Floral Clutch : Sogo, Heels : Everbest. Everything were brand new except for the heels that you've seen a thousand times in various posts

I only wore genuine gold (and diamond) during CNY season, it's tradition (and also to make sure we attract even more ca-ching for the upcoming year of course! LOL)! Oh yeah, i bought the dress after eyeing for the longest time in Body and Soul, it was just too bloody expensive (IDR 450.000 or something)! Even after being on sale, it was not exactly cheap (IDR 250.000) but after months of putting it off, i caved in. Believe it or not, i got it in XS (it was the last piece, or so they said) and it's still gigantic. A week later i visited Body and Soul again, and of course... New stocks comes out and it's been further reduced to IDR 195.000. My only consolation was it was in size M (which is crazy since the XS was so HUGE already) and would look awful on me. If you see it XS (for IDR 195.000) please don't ever let me know.

Here's an extra outfit pic with my brand new pajama :p! It's cute, isn't it? My mum got it for me and i couldn't stop protesting on why she only got me one (we're supposed to have two pairs, one for CNY's Eve and one for the actual CNY)

Cam-whoring my CNY nails, even on my pajama :P (haven't removed my make up, obvi)

Then more new make ups for the actual CNY, naturally!

Collection Work The Colour Trio in 5 (Champagne Fizz); Eyeshadow Pencils in 5 (Midnight Glam) and 1 (Vanilla Sky); Blush & Highlight Cream Duo in 2 (Peaches & Cream), Etude House 55 Kissful Tint Chou in 1 (Red Chou)-old packaging, Ocean Soda Pops Lip Balm in Grape

CNY morning FOTD

Yea... It was really early in the morning (for me, of course. You know how big of an owl i am) and i (as always) didn't get enough sleep the night before... So... Woke up looking super puffy!

Of course, donning my brand new red (what else) Fossil Bag

Can't stop cam-whoring with my pretty nails hahahaha. And clearly the mirror needed to be cleaned again

But not on CNY of course, you do know we're not supposed to clean up (and throw away stuffs, or say bad words, and a million other rules that i broke simultaneously) on CNY right? Chinese believe that cleaning up and throwing out stuffs (including dusts) would mean throwing away lucks and prosperity! We seriously don't want that right!

An awesome OOTD pic taken by my hunny. If only he takes this kind of shots all the time, i can stop taking mirror selfies, but it's one in a million kind of shot really *LOL* i just got ridiculously lucky that day hahahah. Red Wrap Dress : Zara, Red Skinny Belt with Little Golden Bow Buckle : Stroberi, Bag : Fossil, Heels : Charles & Keith

I didn't buy these heels especially for this CNY, i actually got this like, a year ago or something *LOL* on 60% off and been hoarding it forever. It was perfect for my outfit though, pray to God it won't crumble the next time i wear it since i kept it (in brand new condition) for so long!

The dress was not bought recently either, got it on Zara's previous sale like in July or August of 2013! But i already knew i wanted to wear it for the next CNY so of course i kept it in one of my closets of shame! It also ticked off all the right boxes (except that it's more chic than princessy, made from soft cotton) as it was flattering (anything that covers my massive arms loosely are flattering for my body shape really), decent (you know, CNY is all about meeting your nosy relatives and family friends. They can be the most obnoxious people and make the most insensitive comments that made me want to hurl abuse their way, mostly to tell them to look at themselves in the mirror before making stupid, rude comments. I really prefer to avoid all that, thank God i succeeded this year hahaha) without being too closed up and matronly.

Even though it still stings being called "Auntie" by some girl only 13 years my junior. Seriously. I was much much younger than you when you were born, how would you feel to be called aunty by my 6 year old son, eh? Grrr.

Moving on now.

CNY night FOTD. Actually i didn't re-do my make up *LOL*, i even napped in full make up :p. I just darkened my eyeliner (using that Collection Eyeshadow Stick) and skip the red lippie and use the Collection Hotlight Lip Gloss instead. I looked a lot less puffy at night right? LOL

The soft, light lip color made the whole look a lot softer. We were just going to my sister's place for a serviced BBQ afterall...

Used the same skinny belt as the morning. Cream and Red Crepe Chiffon Kimono Dress : Body and Soul

I totally forgot to buy a new slip dress (also because i wasn't really planning to wear this dress on CNY, actually) so i used a casual, striped (black with white stripes) cotton dress as the inner (the dress was see-through!). It has the most interesting, kimono-like sleeves with unexpected holes and i was clearly trying to show it off in this picture, not quite successfully so...

I love the slouchy shape, made it look casual but chic at the same time

Got this dress at the same time as the dress for the CNY, thankfully this one's not being further reduced (so far!!!!) or i will be doubly as pissed. It was on a huge sale as well, got it for IDR 195.000 only :D.

That's all of the outfits and make ups for this year's CNY, i'm very pleased with all of my looks especially because i reached my goal (not getting any annoying comments regarding my looks. Well, maybe of my blonde hair, but that's about all so i can't complain). Don't be too confused if within a month or so i might get next year's CNY's outfit already, whenever i see a pretty red dress i immediately reserve it as my CNY outfit...

If you also celebrated CNY and blog about it, lemme know and leave your link below so i can check it out. I'm always nosy like that :D.

#Pink (or #Red, just for this season)

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Shop 'til You Drop Ver 2.0

bath and body cares

Hi y'all!

Okay, so... If i say "Oops i did it again" everytime i went on a shopping spree i guess Britney Spears would be hot again. Oops, did i just offend any Britney Spears fans out there? LOL, don't be. I like Britney, her old self at least. But i am not here to talk about Britney for sure (On a totally unrelated matter, have you heard that Brittany Murphy's death is now officially suspected as a murder by rat poisoning??? Cray cray world out there!) :p, it's time for another shopping spree sesh with ma galz!

If you read this entry just posted last month, me and ma gal fwiend G went out for a cray cray shopping spree and we enjoyed it so much we decided it's a must do activity that we'd love to do more regularly. It's not just the shopping spree (though it sure played a big role!) that we enjoyed so much, but also the chance to hang out with your best galz, gossip, catch up and bond. There's nothing more special than a girls time out!

Although we'd love to do it weekly (i heard #Undecided shrieked in horror somewhere just now), there are a lot of other things that we must do (you know, boring ones haha like supervising canopy builders in G's case :P, or less boring things like going to Bali for a vacay in mine!), so we only got to do it a month after the last one. It was so much more special because we were joined (unexpectedly) by #Undecided.

A selfie before going out is like an official rule, of corz. And no, i didn't put on that leopard top to bug #Undecided, i planned to wear it a few days before, it's not my fault that she decided to join at the very last minute! An outfit post will follow soon!

Errr, sorry to post your bare feet, ladies, i gotta show off my cute yellow trainers!

Dunno if you can tell from my face *i think i looked puffy and tired* that i wasn't feeling very well (another episode of flu that haven't gone away for weeks now *sigh*), my nose was blocked and runny simultaneously, it was disgusting.

Plus i was in a rotten mood because my hunny been super annoying (not like, disturb me all the time annoying, but more of that spacing out and unfocused annoying. Pretty much ignoring me for days, and i am such a Princess of corz it made me consider adopting a toy boy immediately. Don't mess with me) for the past few days (of course we made up already, tips? I ignored him for a few hours and went to have fun with my girls. Came crawling back to me acting all cute, of course. Don't take craps from your other half, ladies!).

He totally ruined my plan (including going to the Church again for the first time in many many months. Oops. I just couldn't stand not be near him when i'm super annoyed like that. Don't go on preaching on me now, i won't preach on you and i appreciate you to do the same) but at the same time, i got to have some super fun time with my galz *sigh*. I'm so going to hell.

Anyway! I did have plan to use that Ishine voucher s i got from VT and visit Elianto again (they are having lots of promotion for Christmas! Can't. Resist) but as usual, i ended up with so much more than i planned to. Typical.

You know, for someone who's a total creature of habit i kinda sucked at maintaining series. I keep on going off with my weekly haul posts while my hauls keeps on mountain-ing up. Haih. I actually am prepping another massive November haul already, but i'm so scared that #Undecided would really lose it this time and tie me to a pole or something, i figured it's better to post a haul post of stuffs that i got when i was with her. At least she already KNEW (and must i say, approve?) i got them so she couldn't be angry again. Right? RIGHT???

Okay lah, let's start with the beauty stuffs.

Ishine Trio Eyeshadow in Lilac Candy and Blush On in Bronze D'Or

Very tempted to use every single one of the vouchers (except for the 20% off eyeliner) but it won't be expired before 31st January anyway, so being a weirdo that i am, i decided to purchase their lipsticks (Buy 1 Get 1 what) and powder on January :P. I decided to get the better deals (IDR 50.000 off on blush on and eye shadow each) first :p. I know i said i'm gonna stock up for gifts, but well.. I ended up buying for myself. What's new?

May not look like much in the picture but in real life it's pretty gorgeous!!! Especially love the burgundy one in the middle. Definitely not the type of colors i really have in my collection yet

I actually planned to buy an eyeshadow palette for a gift since the friend i have in mind wear a lot of eyeshadow (but not blush on), but when i saw this shade and swatched it... I (thinking of any excuses) errr, got into the usual trance. I hope that particular friend (i don't think so anyway) reads this blog, but i might give the other Ishine eyeshadow that i got from VT in exchange since it contained much more natural (and more of the type that she wears) and wearable colors. I don't think burgundy eyeshadow's for everybody anyway. I'm still thinking though, i have attachment issues with my make ups *clearly*.

The shimmery blush on was BEAUTIFUL!

Again, it doesn't look like much on the picture *or even on the real life pan actually*, so i was happily surprised when i swatched them and see how beautiful they are once applied! I was never a big fan of shimmery blush on, but they are definitely growing on me. You can't tell from the picture *heck, i can't even tell by looking at the actual thing, #Undecided even went and said that it looked like an ordinary powder on the pan but she also agreed that they are very beautiful worn* but it has a very finely milled shimmer that's gonna make one's complexion glows! From all of their collection (and that's saying a lot because i love how pigmented and buttery their lipsticks are, also how pretty their eye shadows are once swatched-even though i wish they come up with more color selections, they only have four color choicest and on the pan i must say they look kinda "old" and boring) i gotta say their blush ons are my fave!

There were only two choicest for blush on color, sadly! One's a pretty soft pink color called Passion Pink (that should be my obvious choice, given my fondness of pink blushers. But i figured, i still have a few pale pink blush on in my stash so i surprised even myself by purchasing the only other color) and this Bronze D'Or. Dunno why they called it Bronze something, it's very soft and pale, i think it's too pale to be considered a bronzer (or maybe i'm just confusing a simple name with the function, wouldn't be my first). Just like the eye shadow, i hope they'll come out with more colors (at least they have a pretty extensive lipstick choices with 12 colors!).

This is one higher end local brand we should keep our eyes on! And do look out for promotions (like this voucher i used) because without them, they are quite pricey (especially for local products), eye shadows are IDR 135.000, blush ons IDR 120.000, lipsticks IDR 75.000, and if i remember correctly : powder foundie IDR 180.000 and eyeliner IDR 80.000.

Then of course, we went to Elianto (fast becoming my go to imported brand. Very affordable with high quality! Lemme tell you something, their nail polishes are one of the best nail polishes i've ever tried!).

Call me kiasu but i can never pass on promotional packages with cute extras like these!

So, i actually went to Elianto and purchased their sheet facial masks last week (with #Undecided) because i saw in their FB page that they're having a promotion : 5 masks for IDR 79.000, which is a total steal (actual price's around IDR 25.000/piece). Since i am a huge sheet masks fan, i just gotta get them! Then i also got attracted to their other packages (there are a LOT! Including make up sets. If you're interested to get them, hurry and grab them! Lots of great deal there! I'd probably buy every packages available if i let myself WTF), especially the shampoo+shower gel package (because i'm concerned about my hunny's prematurely thinning hair! I try to buy him higher ended shampoos because clearly drugstore shampoos doesn't do anything for his hair! And because shower gel's one my biggest weakness that i can actually justify coz we use them every day right!)

Shampoo+Shower Gel Package IDR 149.000

Chose the Scalp Care Shampoo because i think he needs scalp care more than moisturizing one (the other variant available), but no, he doesn't have dandruff *LOL*. It's pretty huge (400ml).

I sniffed the other variants and sadly i didn't find most of them to smell nice. The BA told me they focus more on the benefit than the smell, but what can i do, i love my shower gel to smell yummy! This one's the nicest smelling one lah, with Raspberry & Acai Berry (sorry for the blurry pic i didn't realize zzz, it's 250 ml).

Then since we spent more than IDR 300.000 in Centro (i also bought two tops that i will show you below), we got an IDR 30.000 voucher. And because i've been thinking of buying more sheet facial masks (you know, i use them every week, i keep on running low on them), i used them wisely of corz ahahahaha.

In the end paid IDR 49.000 for 5 sheet masks! That's IDR 9.800 each, cheap or what?

Next stuffs i want to show you are actually not exactly beauty stuffs, but it can be related to beauty.

Alcohol 70% so i can finally do the DIY brush cleanser that Phanie posted on her blog (that i've procrastinate doing for months already even though i already bought the other ingredient and even a bottle to place them months ago as well..) and Salep Sriti.

I know right, what a fugly name. Sriti. LOLOLOLOL. Sounds like some bird feed or something. And it costs only IDR 4000 (USD 0.35 haha), #Undecided swore by this cream (that is actually a Chinese cream so you can find it in most Chinese medicine shops) to speed the recovery of a wound. My legs recently got lots of wounds from extensive scratching *lots of moqsuitos in rainy season apparently zzzz* so i'm gonna give it a try. I might even do a review on this dirt cheap antiseptic cream :p.

Moving on now! I am trying really hard to reduce my clothes buying, and i really did (you don't believe me??? I only bought ONE dress in Bali and i very rarely order clothes online lately! Really lah, trust me) but then i blew it once we entered Magnolia. LOL. I mean, their stuffs are getting more and more ridiculously expensive (and they put them on sale soon afterwards WTF) and most of their designs didn't agree with me for the past few months, but their new arrival... OH!!! Lots of Emoda inspired (you know, the oh-so-sophisticated monochrome Mode style that, believe it or not, i really LOVE!). So, yep... I'm actually pretty proud that i managed to buy only two (cropped) tops (and that's mainly because a poncho-style top that all three of us liked only got one stock left and we let G-who spotted it first-get. If they have stocks we planned to do a triple twinsies...)

Checked Cropped Top IDR 139.000, Striped Cropped Top 129.000

Since our purchase combined surpassed a certain amount, we could purchase this funky necklace for only IDR 25.000! Of corz i didn't pass that chance

Then, like i said, more clothes at Centro *double sigh*. Both tops were from Chic Simple (one of my fave dept store clothing brand, if only they are not so crazily over priced. I mean, they sell the same stuffs as online shops and they charged more than twice the price. Nutz) on a 70% off.

Blueish Gray Baby Doll Top

Thin Baby Pink Cotton Top

Paid around IDR 170.000 for both tops, so it's IDR 85.000 each (well, when they are on a 70% off then they are cheaper than online shops haha).

I'm extremely happy with all of my purchases (i mostly shop when there are lots of good deals, and i am the kind that almost never have any regrets! I regret only when i jumped the gun, buy a new arrival that in a few months (or worse, weeks) got slashed to half price. That's my ultimate fear now hahaha)! Have you taken advantage in this sale season and bag yourself some good deals?

Now, i'm gonna go and obsess about hotels in Hong Kong for our upcoming holiday! We made a reservation with Disneyland Hotel online that turned out to be severely overpriced *cries*, i found the exact same hotel in Asiatravel.com for HKD 500 cheaper! And the Disneyland online also not very helpful, keep on asking us to fax forms etc (we're using my dad's credit card to book because i want to turn it into installment, you know... kiasu reasons) and no further info. I don't think they charged the credit card yet (they promised they won't charge it without confirmation and so far we got no confirmations yet), so fingers crossed we can cancel it ASAP and book via Asiatravel instead!

Wish me luck!!!

#Pink

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Shop 'til You Drop!

aldo

Hellowww!!!

How's everybody doing? I've been too lazy to blog lately (thank God for bursts of creativity that happens once in a while that i always milked and force myself to hoard post after post whenever that appears! That's how i can still update new posts in this blog very regularly :D) zzzz, i have no idea what or who to blame. Lemme try, i'm blaming the weather (still too hot to handle zzzz), Plant VS Zombie 2 for finally being available in Android, and way too many distractions. Yes, i've been shopping like mad online and offline lately, hence the title *face palm*.

Usually i'd line my haul posts in order of when i purchased them, but this time i'm making a special post of a girlie day out with G (you can tell that i haven't had a full day shopping with my girls for a while now) when i shopped like a maniac! I've had too much fun not to share the nitty gritty with y'all! Oh, there'll be occasional complaints here and there (okay, A LOT. I am immensely dissatisfied with Surabaya's service standard nowadays! Lina told me "That's why it's best to shop online" and i couldn't agree more! This way we won't have to face snooty, stupid and unprofessional sales people at the mall-i'd say 3 out of 5 belongs to that category, it's THAT bad!) so you might think i didn't actually enjoyed myself, that's not true! I am capable of being pissed at times in one day and still thinks that i've had a perfect day *LOL*.

Me and my shopping buddy. LOL, that's how short G is without her heels! She's around 17 cm shorter than me :p

G was like, let's wear something simple so we can try out clothes easily! In most people's book that'd probably be a short+t-shirt, in mine that means a pretty sundress-because it's perpetually HOT in Surabaya!

White Off Shoulder Cotton Dress with Eyelets Details : N.Y.L.A, Purple bag : Bonia

Decided to "screw autumn shades" for now and went back to my (summery) gyaru, girly roots :p. Dunno if it's wise though, because dressing like this makes people thinks i'm way younger than i really am and that in turn, makes sales people treat me like i'm a poor kid who cannot afford their stuffs. Eff them.

Of course i had to deck myself in costume jewelry to avoid feeling bare hahaha. Ring, earrings and lace-detailed bangle all from Shine, white rabbit hair clip from Warna (in Jakarta, we have no Warna stores in Surabaya. Warna means color, btw), and round silver plate necklace with china pattern from an accessory brand from Australia in Sogo that i cannot remember the name...

Abandoning dark, vampy looks for my beloved girly colors

D'oh, my bangs are driving me insaneeee-ahhhh!

Pink and purple eye shadow, pinkish cheeks and pink lipstain (G gave me the Collection lip stain i coveted because she doesn't like lip stains. I will def review it!)

Here's what i got after shopping from AM to PM (left home around 11.30 AM and returned around 10 PM LOL). We went to TP (Tunjungan Plaza) until around 5 then continued to GM (Galaxy Mall) hehe.

Obviously i went a little nuts, as you can see

Before we really started to shop, we went to Kiehl's counter in Sogo first. Not because we wanted to buy something (Omo, Kiehl's stuffs are so expensive, i kinda choked when hunny asked the price of a deodorant and the BA said "275.000". LOL. And i thought IDR 99.000 TBS' one was excessive!) but because a few days ago i stumbled into some Indonesian beauty blog's (i honestly can't remember the name though) entry about this Vote and get free samples thingy : Feel The Power.

They're having a campaign where you can vote for your favorite design of Mr. Skeleton's (their icon) historic lab-coat, all four designed by well known Indonesian celebrities (or two out of four, at least) and public figures. By voting, not only you'd be eligible for a free consultation and trial sets (three sachets for every voter), you'd also help donate IDR 5.000 for SOS Children Village. Getting free samples and do someting good at one go? I'm in! (And because i'm kiasu i told some of my friends too hahaha. I made hunny and G vote so we could get the samples together) I wanted to vote for Arie Wibowo just because he's handsome, but then i snapped back and voted for Sigi Wimala because i really liked her design hehe.

The BA who attended to us was quite nice and very very professional. She answered every questions clearly and nicely, and she didn't push us to make ANY purchase. That's gotta be a very rare thing, yes? I really like that, i believe most people can relate-if we want to buy something, you do not need to push us. The more you push us, the chance of us buying anything at all would actually get smaller. I hate pushy SAs, but better pushy than downright bitchy i guess. More about that later.

Kiehl's counter (i've been there maybe once or twice before because MM's husband's friend worked there) was very nice, too bad they wouldn't let us take any pictures. They could've gotten a free advert here if they did! LOL. Their loss i guess.

Anyway, the "consultation" was actually the BA flipping out a "magic paper", a tiny round thingy and stick two of them on our faces, one in our forehead and one on our cheek. It'd tell you the skin condition that we each had. She told us that G's skin's normal to oily (hydration level a little low)-much to her surprise because she thought her skin's really dry, hunny's skin's normal (must be that Etude House Moistfull Collagen cream that i slather on his face every night, it really works!), and mine's normal to oily with very good hydration level (i totally thought my skin's super oily!) and gave us samples according to our skin's needs.

Three for hunny and three for me

Mine : Kiehl's Ultra Facial Oil-Free Cleanser and Gel Cream

Hunny's Kiehl Ultra Facial Cleanser and Toner

She gave me an Amino Acid Shampoo for the third sample (much to G's jealousy...)

Kiehl Facial Fuel Transformer : Age Correcting Moisture Gel for Men (obvi this one's hunny's) because the BA noticed some fine lines on his forehead. Am i married to an uncle? LOL

The BA also didn't let us off so fast, she kept on making us fill in some forms "You might be the monthly (or was it weekly) winner! The prize's not bad at all!" LOL. Well, we had a lot of time and she was nice, so we did it anyway. I am a glass half empty kind of person so i don't think any of us would win, but that's okay *LOL*. Feel The Power voting's still open now, hurry and vote (don't forget to like their FB page first!) There's even a weekly winner for the voters as well! It might be you!

Next we went to Make Up Forever's counter and... got ignored by all fo the BAs. LOLOLOL. We didn't look like people who can afford their stuffs, meh? I can afford a Bonia bag, of course i can afford MUFE's stuffs lah hallo. LOL. But again, it's better to be ignored (at one point G was trying out their shimmery finishing powder-and a BA actually TOOK the brush out of her hand because she wanted to use it on some other customer! LOL) than being scoffed at.

At least we managed to swatch a lot of things (i promptly fell in love with their lip glosses and the aforementioned finishing powder! I never thought i'd ever want a bling2 face, but never say never when it comes to make up i guess *sigh*). Not entirely happy of being treated like we're invincible (or not a valued customer when we asked some questions to one of the BA). I am putting the shimmery finishing powder in my wishlist but would prefer to buy it somewhere else because i did not like the BAs in Tunjungan Plaza. LOL.

Then we started to really shop...

At Aldo

They were having some sale, and we were so shocked when we saw two clutches at less than IDR 200.000! This particular clutch was one that i've been eyeing since it first appeared in Aldo stores months ago (because of obvious reasons, look at the pastel colors combo!) but wouldn't even consider buying (it was almost IDR 500.000 i think. I'd prefer pay more and buy something more high end...), but now it's been reduced to around IDR 185.000! Since G also bought a clutch (a shimmery leopard one that might make #Undecided wants to claw her eyes out if only i had the picture for her to see hehe)-we got 10% more discount! This clutch costs me IDR 171.100

I'd say it was a total steal!

G kept on saying she wanted to learn how to put on falsies, but she doesn't have any glue despite of having a few falsies -___- WTF G! I told her to get something cheap for practicing purposes, so i dragged her to Daiso because their eyelash glues are cheap and works okay. We saw some super tiny cute ones, they are not the squeezy type (which is very very messy zzz) but came with tiny wands and they tempted me to get some too zzzz. My squeezy Daiso tube's almost dried out anyway. I told her we should get 2 sets of different types and get one each. So we did!

Daiso eyelashes glue, from two different types haha i just put them both in one package

Most of Daiso's stuffs were made in China so i was quite (pleasantly) surprised when i realized that these eye lashes glues were made in Korea!

We went to Elianto's counter at Matahari TWICE. Okay, bitching session starts here *LOL*. Actually the BA was not annoying or bitchy, she was... er.... unhelpful and clueless. I got an Elianto voucher from Lola Box and it clearly stated that it can only be used in Elianto counters in MATAHARI Department Store (otherwise i wouldn't bother to go to TP really. It's not very close to my home and we have Elianto counter in Centro-GM-which i went to (at least) every weekend!), so we went there at around 1 PM first. The BA was flustered and told us she knew nothing about it. And she had to check with her supervisor (how's that our problem, duh!!!) but the supervisor's not there yet, maybe she'll arrive around 2. Since i knew we're going to be there at least until 4, i said okay, we'll come back.

Then at 3 (!!!) we got back (just after having a bad episode in Magnolia *LOL*, more about that later) and she was like "Yes, sorry, but the supervisor didn't show up..." "I never saw that voucher, i have no idea about it..." "It cannot be used, sorry"-and she tried to show us an exactly the same voucher (but for IDR 30.000 instead of IDR 50.000) that expired months ago. I was seething and immediately twitted both Elianto and Lola Box (which replied pretty speedily!), but i didn't expect G to explode! LOL. I never saw G exploded much, she's probably the most patient (and clueless) one in the group-so it was quite a surprise.

She hurled the word "fraud" (Ho, CL's famous line came in mind immediately, THIS IS FRAUD!!!) told the BA "I DON'T CARE. You take care of this. You think i'm trying to cheat or something? YOU check it out with your supervisor or whatever, i don't care. All i know is we have this voucher and i want to to use it NOW". And sure enough, less than 3 minutes later after clicking on the computer very briefly, she returned all (even more) flustered and apologetic telling us it's valid and can be used now. WTF? -____-. I personally didn't hate her or whatever, she was nice and friendly (and not to mention visibly frightened by us), i just didn't get why she was trying to reject the voucher! Has she been trained to ward off anyone who's trying to use vouchers or something?

BAs in Matahari TP's quite troublesome in general though. I had an unpleasant episode with Maybelline's BA (where she scoffed and talked to me like i was a beggar when i asked her about a discount)-and that exact day Olin was actually also in TP and she was being treated like a dirt and actually being shooed off-by Maybelline Matahari's BA. Tsk Tsk Tsk, just because your stuffs are constantly on sale doesn't mean you can discount the service as well, no??? Geez, i would definitely explode and threw make ups on her face if i was Olin *LOL*.

Okay, bitching part 1 finished, there's part 2 and 3 in this post alone. LOL.

This is what i got from Elianto TP

In order to use the voucher, i had to spend at least IDR 250.000. I've always been attracted to their eye shadows (very pigmented and beautiful, very affordable too! IDR 45.000 to 69.000 each-the shimmery "top coat's more expensive) and i've also wanted a customized palette-while i am not interested in MAC's prices, Elianto's right up my alley. I paid IDR 244.000 for the biggest palette (can house 10 eye shadows) and 5 eye shadows. Very cheap, no?? Knowing me, i thought i'd fill it with colorful eye shadows, but i ended up picking mostly subtle colors! I can't believe my first customized palette would consist of very boring shades *LOL*, but they are oh-so-pretty (shimmer lovers would approve), i just gotta have them!

10-eye shadow palette (empty) IDr 69.000

Elianto Safari Shadow in 02 Creamy Yellow (IDR 45.000)

Luscious Shadow in 03 California Gold-despite looking very opaque it's actually more of a "top coat", very glittery but not pigmented like the other lines of eye shadow. It was supposed tp be IDR 69.000 but when i made the calculation at home, the BA totally gave me the wrong price and charged me IDR 45.000 instead! LOL.

Lustre Shadow in 01 Snow White (IDR 45.000) it didn't look like it's that appealing, but once swatched-it actually turns out to be glowy, shimmery white, and super pretty!

Lustre Shadow in 05 Dusky Pink (IDR 45.000), i have a lot of pink eye shadow but not enough of the shimmery one!

Madigra Shadow in 04 Brilliant Blue (IDR 45.000)

I actually went and purchase one more of them in Centro the next day because i got an IDR 30.000 (from shopping of the stuffs i will tell you about) voucher that expires today.

Luscious Shadow in 01 Platinum White (IDR 69.000), another one of the "top coat" type, paid IDR 39.000 only after using the voucher :D

Just like that i almost finished filling my palette within two days (i also have one one of their eye shadow from Lola Box before). Three more to go!

Of course, my hauls almost always contains accessories, right? This time's no exception!

Double rings on sale for IDR 30.000

I especially love the golden one, it's super super dainty!

Then some more in Bling. I can never resist their promotion!

Two ring sets for IDR 59.000, that'd be IDR 29.500 each!

This must not look very nice like this

But they actually spelled out the word LOVE! How cute???

Seriously, ring sets are my biggest accessories weakness now!

5 rings for IDR 29.500? Score!

Like i said earlier, we went to one of my fave local clothing store, Magnolia as well. It was (still is! You might want to check it out if you have Magnolia stores in your place! It's one of the biggest sales they've ever had, meaning the selection of sale items were pretty vast instead of one or two racks like usual) having a sale and i ended up with three tops that i've been wanting for quite a while. Not without any drama though.

The only non-sale item, a studded cropped top

Dreamy pink chiffon crepe see through top, 30% off-paid around IDR 82.000 for this

Lacey tye dye outer. I always loved the super pretty color combo but couldn't justify the IDR 197.000 price tag (for something from Magnolia, that's too pricey). It's now on a 30% off, and i didn't mind paying IDR 137.900 for it!

Oh ya, the drama. See that studded cropped top? I've been eyeing it for weeks (yes, i like to sleep off most of the stuffs that i wanted because of my wardrobe's condition), there's only two pieces left and i painfully checked the studs-one of the two pieces left had studded the almost fell off. So, naturally i picked the better one and the SA put it in the cashier. Then i went to the cashier to pay for my stuffs, there's a pair of mother and daughter paying for their stuffs ahead of me, and out of nowhere i saw the daughter pointed to MY top and said "I want that." and the STUPID cashier scanned it into their receipt! WTF! If nobody claims that top, why the hell would it be in the cashier,*#y*^@$%^!@$%^????

G hurried and found (she's really a good sidekick that day hahahaha) the SA who then told the cashier the top was mine. Both the SA and the cashier tried to avoid being responsible and kept on saying "I dunno!" "I dunno!". Right, of course i exploded HAHAHAHAHAHA. G told them to make a switch and give the top i picked to me. I would've walked away (hurling abuse to them all the way) without paying if they refused!

I got even madder when the customer in front of me bitched about "Wasn't it the same color anyway? What's the problem??" Hello *&#*^&%&*@, I picked that top specifically okay! Who died and made you queen that you can just point to any random things that other people already picked and they should give it to you? WTF, THE NERVE!!!! So i hurled some more sailor words to them (and thankfully that shut them up). However whenever i'm very very angry, i lost my capability to curse in Indonesian, so i was bitching in English at rapid fire at G. Not sure if they understood me fully, but at least they behaved better after i exploded. WHY IS IT ONE HAS TO BE A TOTAL B TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT???? It's so tiring!!!!

Ok lor, that's bitching number 2.

We moved to GM already and bought all these stuffs :

From Centro. Also bought a toy for Baby Boy (because he's been having very good grades) but of course i didn't take any pictures

Hahahahaha buying towels i also want to show you! I've taken up hot yoga classes (but only went once last week because my partner-L-kept on bailing pffffftttt. Will go again on Wednesday) and i don't really have any mid-sized towels.

Super cute bear cap for Baby Luca!

Then the cashier told us we're short IDR 30.000 to eligible for an IDR 30.000 voucher! So i went to hunt for something, anything! This comfy navy loose cropped top from Korz was on a 70% off, IDR 50.000 something so i got it! I love simple stuffs to mix and match too you know!

Then i also shopped at N.Y.L.A... only one balloney-sleeved chiffon bolero (LEOPARD pattern ahahahaha) that's on a special price, IDR 75.000. It's just hanging sadly there on the racks (with her three other sisters in different colors), for untrained eyes it looks like a lump of fugly thing, but hey-i'm the shopping diva okay! I knew it'd be cute! Guess what, as soon as i threw it on (and went to the mirror), two women noticed me and squealed, and proceed to grab the other two in the rack (that they already passed disinterestedly a few minuted prior). PFFFFFTTTTTT. I'm a little unhappy. I totally think N.Y.L.A should pay me or something, it was like i was endorsing them-and still buying their stuffs! LOL. Kidding (or not).

It's impossible to photograph though, you need to see it ON

Eh, remember i spilt all those vajeje wash that i got from Singapore? Then i made #Undecided buy me one? I also forced G to buy me one *LOLOLOL*, after months she finally did!

I'm not sure how many Indonesian bloggers would post a picture of a Vajeje wash on their blog *LOLOLOL*, considering the circumstances on how i got them-i totally should post this!

That's actually all of the stuffs i got! Plenty huh? But the bitching only got to two? Yeah, third one about The Body Shop's birthday program. I never knew that a member's entitled of a free gift on their birthday (if anyone else didn't know-#Undecided didn't so i wasn't the odd one out!-you're welcome!), until yesterday when i accidentally read their twitter! Then i also read "gift can be redeemed max 1 month after your birthday". I went to all the trouble asking them if exactly one month (it was the 3rd yesteday right) on Twitter, but even though they replied to a lot of other people, they never bothered to answer me.

We went to ECC to watch Emergo (sucks. Don't watch it!) and there's no TBS in ECC, because i'm #1 Miss Kiasu, i actually asked hunny if he'd mind going to GM (and then back to ECC after to pick up Baby Boy who's having too much fun at Chipmunk) to use the Centro voucher and also check with TBS. On the way there, i realized i didn't have my ID (which is needed to get the gift) with me-i put it in my work out bag in case they needed it at the yoga place last Tuesday for registration and then forgot to put it back in my bag) so we had to make a detour home.

So imagine my disappointment when the BA first said "Oh yes, it can be redeemed" first but quickly followed with "Oh, no. It can't. Have you redeemed this already?". Errrr.... i just told you that i ONLY heard about this program today, and now you're asking me if i've already redeemed it? Would anyone be so brazen as to try to redeem something they already redeemed before? Well, if anyone would, that wouldn't be me! It already took me so much courage to come up and asked her about the free gift (such things embarrass me to no end you know). PFFFTTTT.

Of course, i didn't really blame the BA, the whole thing was automatic after all. She wasn't the one who refused to give me the free gift, it just confuses me how the receipt printed out stated "Do not issue birthday gift, it has been issued". BY WHOM????

I complained in multiply twits to TBS, but never got any response *even though they kept on twitting*. That makes me realize, that not every brand would respond to your complains (ahem, Carrefour), they would only reply to nice things. So i am immensely impressed with the ones that does (like Elianto and Lola Box).

Bitching finished (for now) *LOL*. Btw, there's this HUGE Christmas tree (already???) in GM and i had to take pictures :

Can't even capture the tip :p

I have a very strong urge to steal one of the bears...

Baby Boy's hair cuts are always a hit and miss with me, even though he went to the same hairdresser! This time's not up to my standard either :(

There's LT Pro's Fashion and Beauty parade or something and we watched a while when we're having a coffee break at Starbucks (because i just want a few sips coz it's late already, and hunny's addicted to their Salted Caramel one). I am not trying to be rude, but... Errrr.... I was confused with their model selections. Let's just say they made the clothes looked bad *LOL*. I guess it was ill fitting (wayyyy to loose, it was probably normal people's size worn by super skinny models, so...) or something.

But... not only that, some of them looked like they thought they were hot stuffs or something, in short G and i agreed that some of them really pissed us off just by watching them LOLOLOL. Not to mention the walk. I mean, i know they wouldn't walk like America's Next Top Models or something, but there's this particular girl who walked like she's the prettiest girl on earth, all snooty and with excessive "OH I'M SO HOTTT" vibes and crazy hips throwing, next thing i know.... down she went. LOL. I burst out laughing obvi. Oh God, i'm such a horrible person, i'm going to hell!

Before i finish this longer than-i-intended post, here's a picture of BABY LUCAAAA!

AWWW So chubby! So CUTE!

A golden bangle from all of mummy's BFF!

In case you're wondering why we got a gold accessory for a baby boy, that's because in Chinese tradition it's compulsory for close relatives to get gold stuffs for a new baby-to wish the baby well and also to strengthen them familial bond. We're practically family already so of course we gotta get them something made of gold!

Okay, i really gonna stop now hahaha. Happy holiday for Indonesian!

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